Last Week Reading (2022-01-02)
? Press Efficient Upserts into Data Lakes with Databricks Delta When MERGE on data lake is inefficient. Building a Data Mesh Architecture in Azure – part 1 With this...
2022-01-02
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Blog Posts
Source Control – The Best GUI For Productivity
Source control is quintessential to a productive development environment. A well maintained and organized source control system is akin to having known-good database backups. Having the right tools to...
2022-01-02
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Memory – How to Find when Excess is a Bad Thing
Excessive memory grants are extremely problematic in SQL Server. These excessive grants do not just happen out of the blue. Memory grants are directly linked to the queries.
The post...
2022-01-01
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A Few #2021Wins
It’s the end of the year. I’m on vacation, celebrating time with family now, but I wanted to write this post. I got a prompt from LinkedIn last week...
2021-12-31
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Daily Coping 31 Dec 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-12-31
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Memory – How to Find when Excess is a Bad Thing
Excessive memory grants are extremely problematic in SQL Server. These excessive grants do not just happen out of the blue. Memory grants are directly linked to the queries.
The post...
2021-12-31
382 reads
The Chili Shirt–Memories of Euan Garden
Early on in the history of SQL Server Central, we were offered the chance to work in a booth a TechEd and promote our little site. Brian Knight, Andy...
2021-12-31 (first published: 2021-12-13)
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Three-part virtual SQL Server learning this week
I’m thrilled to announce a three-part remote education event in conjunction with the Iowa SQL Server community! The topic is SQL Server IaaS and virtualization performance tuning, and it’s...
2021-12-31 (first published: 2021-12-12)
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2021 a year in review
No matter where you are in the world the last couple of years have been, shall we say, difficult. More ... Continue reading
2021-12-30
5 reads
Daily Coping 30 Dec 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-12-30
37 reads
Blogs
The Intersection Between DevOps and FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
DevOps is about shortening the system development lifecycle. Plan faster, build faster, test faster,...
Fabric Mirroring doesn’t start copying Rows
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
JSON_OBJECTAGG is an Aggregate: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I wrote an article recently on the JSON_OBJECTAGG function, but neglected to include an...
Forums
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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